[Angstrom-devel] Maintenance of unstable feed

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:49:34PM +0200, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:

> pickup "Debian stable" anecdote ;-). (Disclaimer: I have to admit that
> I don't know details of Debian's technical governance rules, for
> example, I don't know who or what is allowed to upload to release vs
> unstable repos).

Any developer can upload anything to the unstable and experimental
Debian distributions, though any new packages need to be approved by an
archive administrator before they are accepted (mostly to check for
licensing problems).  Updates to existing packages are accepted
automatically.  In addition some other people can update specific
packages, authorised on a package by package basis.

The same set of people can produce uploads to the release, security and
pre-release archives, though in the case of pre-release and security
this is almost never done.  Any uploads directly to these archives are
held for approval by the relevant team.  In the case of the security
archive the security team prefer to produce all uploads themselves since
it makes their life easier.

For the pre-release repository the preferred way to upload is for
packages to be migrated semi-automatically from the unstable repository.
This happens when all their dependencies can be satisfied and they have
not been excessively buggy for a period of time.  Direct uploads are
only really done for security fixes that can't be migrated from
unstable.

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